So against all logic I was recently working a Monday-Friday 9-5 sort of thing for a while. It involved lots of mind-numbing printer management, and a half-hour bus ride twice a day. In an effort to lessen the mind-numbness, I spent these trips reading.

My house is full of books, anyone who’s been there will tell you that. Too full of books, I’m trying to get rid of them, honestly. But now and then they have their uses, not just for entertaining-and-inspiring-prose or looking-up-how-to-spell-things.